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copied!<p>generally the .exists? method is your best bet to see if a given element exists. it returns true or false.. </p> <p>browser.cell(:id, 'attr-translation-col').exists?</p> <p>=-=-=-= Edit to reflect stuff learned via comments and some resulting investigation =-=-=-=</p> <p>the .cell method is implemented very differently in Watir vs Watir-Webdriver. This does not appear to be included in the doc about the differences between the two.</p> <p>In Watir, the <em>.cell</em> method is defined in the <em>Watir::Container</em> module and returns a <em>tablecell</em> object. This makes the <em>.cell</em> method available nearly anywhere from anything that inherets from <em>Container</em> or includes it. For example the <em>IE</em> object. The <em>tablecell</em> object is inhereted from the <em>Element</em> class, and thus has access to most of the expected methods such as <em>.exists?</em></p> <p>In Watir-Webdriver, the <em>.cell</em> method is defined in <em>Watir::CellContainer</em>. That module is included in <em>Watir::TableRow</em>, which means that (presuming I am understanding this correctly) the <em>.cell</em> method is only available from within a TableRow object, or something that includes <em>TableRow</em> or inherits from it. For example if you review a Watir-Webdriver <em>Browser</em> object, you won't see the <em>.cell</em> method listed. Like Watir, the <em>tablecell</em> object is inhereted from the <em>Element</em> class, and likewise should have access to the <em>.exists?</em> method.</p> <p>In contrast to <em>.cell</em>, the Watir-Webdriver methods for <em>.tr, .td, .th</em> are all defined in <em>Watir::Container</em> (as opposed to CellContainer) and thus are highly available and will usually work. </p> <p>So what this analysis of the Rdoc's for the two projects is telling me is that if you can actually get your hands on a tablecell object in Watir-webdriver, you should be able to call the .exists? method, however you might find the number of places you can use .cell to get a tablecell highly restricted since few objects support this method. If you are seeing an error about a method not existing, it may well be the .cell method, NOT the .exists? method (where Watir-Webdriver is concerned) </p>

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